Author archive for adam
  • Mining Contracts: How to read and understand them

    Mining Contracts: How to read and understand them book released today. The book was produced during a 5 day Book Sprint in Baltimore last week. More information here: http://www.resourcecontracts.org/blog/guides-to-contract-terminology.html “Drawing from several of the contracts on ResourceContracts.org, “Mining Contracts: How ... read more

  • Mining Contracts Book Sprint Started

    The Understanding Mining Contracts Book Sprint is underway. 17 people (15 contributors and 2 from Book Sprints) are gathered in Baltimore to write a follow up to Understanding Petroleum Contracts written in a Book Sprint in 2012 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/101584348@N06/sets/72157635459748355/). We have ... read more

  • New Book Sprint platform

    We have been working hard in the back rooms of Book Sprints. It has been productive times and we will soon try out our new platform built for accelerated and collaborative book production. Code named ‘PubSweet’ the platform is still ... read more

  • Book Sprints at Aspiration Dev Summit

    Those wonderful Aspiration folks are doing their annual Not-for-Profit Dev Summit in San Francisco and Book Sprints is going to be there! Adam Hyde will be present at the event having attended one 4 years ago and enjoyed it so ... read more

  • Expanding Book Sprint Team

    The Book Sprints team is expanding! Due to the increased interest in Book Sprints the team is expanding to include a new business manager, a new facilitator and we have a new business – Book Sprints Limited. René Post joins ... read more

  • 2014 Book Sprints filling up…

    We are looking pretty busy for the first quarter of 2014 with Book Sprints coming up for a wide variety of organisations. If you are considering a Book Sprint then please be in touch sooner rather than later. We are ... read more

  • Book Sprints for ICT Research Update…

    The successful Book Sprints for ICT Research program was intended to be an experiment testing the applicability of Book Sprints in academic contexts. However the research project, funded by the European Commission, has been successful in producing two academic works ... read more

  • Safari Books Book Sprint – done!

    Safari Books Book Sprint was completed today in Boston. 10 of the top Safari Books crew came together to create documentation about their PubFactory platform. The result is the book “PubFactory: An Overview and Content Implementation Guide.” The Book Sprint ... read more

  • Google Doc Camp posts

    The following are links to posts about the recently completed Google Doc Camp: http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/book-sprints-an-open-approach-to-collaborative-writing/article5282472.ece http://ericholscher.com/blog/2013/oct/24/google-book-sprint-2013/ http://brlcad.org/d/node/187 http://scottnesbitt.net/ubuntublog/?p=1542http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2013/10/google-doc-camp-2013-wrapup.html http://brlcad.org/wiki/Google_Doc_Camp

  • 2 Book Sprints coming up

    Coming up in the next 2 weeks are two Book Sprints. The first is in Boston for Safari Books. We will be focusing on documentation about PubFactory. The second is to be held on the following week in Malta. The ... read more